pintado
Americannoun
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pintados,
plural
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pintadoes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pintado
1595–1605; < Portuguese, past participle of pintar to paint < Vulgar Latin *pinctus painted. See pinta
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The last pintado left us 240 miles within the tropics to follow an outward-bound vessel.
It was a plentiful repast, and included roast pintado and cabbage-palm.
From Foul Play by Reade, Charles
Many hundreds of the white-rumped mhorr browsed on it undisturbed, and the pintado and the partridge seemed to be without end.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
The third sort, which is the true pintado, or painted-bird, is curiously spotted white and black.
From A Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William
The ship was now surrounded by albatrosses, penguins, and pintado birds.
From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.
There were few mountains, and only such hills as were enough to form the ravines and pools where the pintadoes and snipes went sailing and diving through.
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules
The 26th of April we got into the trade wind; and on the 10th May, being by estimation 620 leagues west of the Cape of Good Hope, we saw many pintadoes, mangareludas, and other fowls.
From the lat. of 40° to 30° 38' both S. we frequently saw great shoals of seals and penguins, which were always attended by flocks of pintadoes, birds about the size of pigeons.
Forbes Watson classifies the calicoes as being white, bleached and unbleached, striped, &c., printed chintzes, or pintadoes.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
We daily saw some rock-weeds, seals, Port Egmont hens, albatrosses, pintadoes, and other peterels.
From A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 by Cook, James
He believes that in the South there are many more pintados, whose disease has been wrongly diagnosed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg
It is remarkable that in the Bisayan language of the Philippines the term for people so marked, whom the Spaniards call pintados, is batuc.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William
Cassedys nill, alleias, broad pintados, with spotted, striped, and checquered stuffs, are most in request, and sell at good profit.
On land, great numbers of grey parrots, and abundance of pintados or Guinea fowls, which are very hurtful to their rice crops.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
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